The Scabrous Satire of Silicon Valley

Fake Steve TV hits a snag. Philip Elmer-DeWitt in Fortune:

Less than two weeks after the studio Media Rights Capital announced that it had struck a deal with the Epix channel to make a TV comedy series pilot called “iCon” — “a scabrous satire of Silicon Valley and its most famous citizen,” according to its creator — the deal has hit a snag.

It seems the studio wants the rights to Fake Steve’s blog, too.

scabrous |ˈskabrəs|
adjective
1 rough and covered with, or as if with, scabs.
2 indecent; salacious : scabrous publications.

I had to look it up.